This is an open access book. This book, the first edited collection of its kind, explores the recent emergence of philosophical research in astrophysics. It assembles a variety of original essays from scholars who are currently shaping this fiel...Daugiau...
Based on lectures by leading philosophers at the Conceptual Engineering Online Seminar 2020/2022, this volume offers new perspectives on this wide array of topics and connects them to case studies of high philosophical, scientific, or social/politic...Daugiau...
This book focuses on the core foundational issues that underpin conceptual engineering as a philosophical method. In less than a decade, the attention conceptual engineering has attracted across the whole discipline has grown with an explosive int...Daugiau...
This book, the first of two volumes, provides novel perspectives on the study of abduction, by analyzing both Magnanis ample investigation of the subject and discussing its rising importance in todays epistemology and philosophy of science. Notw...Daugiau...
This book offers an insight into some of the central topics in the current panorama of metaphysics. Thorny issues, such as the ontological state of fictional entities, abstract objects, and possible and impossible worlds, are addressed through an ope...Daugiau...
This book offers a different take on the aesthetic experience. Firstly, aesthetics has traditionally been analyzed only from the point of view of the viewer. This book does not do t...Daugiau...
This volume presents ten thought-provoking essays exploring issues in the philosophy of finance that are crucial for the economy and society. They also show the mutual relations and benefits between finance and philosophy. These issues include the...Daugiau...
This open access monograph presents an in-depth study of the problem of how agency fits into the physical world. In particular, the authors focus on agency as a precondition of free will. They present a detailed and physically well motivated forma...Daugiau...
This book solves a century-old key problem in the philosophy of science by providing the first successful solution that differentiates between disciplines, claims, and attitudes that are scientific and those that are not....Daugiau...
This book presents an argument for a new type of scientific realism beyond naturalism, correlationism and what the author terms objective realism. To achieve this positive philosophical proposal, Jan Voosholz develops a thorough critique of curr...Daugiau...
This books offers a novel account of the nature of numbers firmly grounded in results from numerical cognition and the philosophy of mathematics. Drawing on empirical data on the human experience of what we call numbers, the author shows that numbe...Daugiau...
